June 23, 2016
07:04 am JST

I wonder how this might play out in the Japanese media. Poor, picked-upon Sharp, gobbled up by foreign vulture that doesn't respect Japanese work culture? Will Sharp employees suddenly take to "unavoidable" industrial action, supported by a sympathetic media?

June 23, 2016
10:43 am JST

June 23, 2016
11:46 am JST

that's the problem with J salarymen, they think they should be immune to layoffs, well if a company goes bankrupt then you'll have no choice in being laid off!. Let them slug it out between them on who should stay, those that perform their jobs well and make the company profit get to stay, those that dont get the flick. The old Japanese way of doing business died long ago, adapt or die.

June 23, 2016
05:38 pm JST

June 23, 2016
08:07 pm JST

I wonder how this might play out in the Japanese media. Poor, picked-upon Sharp, gobbled up by foreign vulture that doesn't respect Japanese work culture? Will Sharp employees suddenly take to "unavoidable" industrial action, supported by a sympathetic media?

Might, Could go the other way as when Renault took de facto control of Nissan and Carlos Ghosn came in. He became something of a local hero for doing what everyone knew needed to be done but which no one had the courage to do.

June 24, 2016
09:15 am JST

Osaka_DougJUN. 23, 2016 - 05:38PM JST
@Dylan Robertson I agree, many employees do know the issues in a company and can accept layoffs if given a good package.

The dark side of J-companies is that they prefer employees resign on their own rather
than pay a severance package, by so doing they pay less than the required pension to the
worker because the company stands to loss when the worker resigns out of his own will
when in reality the worker is really surplus to requirement.
The end result is the company has unhappy workers on its payroll who have no role to play
in the company and who due to age and lack of confidence to get another job or venture out
and start something on their own prefer, despite all the emotional stress to just hang in the
poisoned environment receiving their paycheck and waiting for retirement age.

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